"The Cry of Children" Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning for Class VIII English. PPT prepared by M Padma Lalitha Sharada,

1. The Cry of Children
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English
For
Class VIII
PPT by
M PADMA LALITHA SHARADA

2. About the Poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861) was a great poet
of English language.
She published a collection of
poems, Sonnets from the
Portuguese, Aurora Leigh,
The Seraphim and Other Poems.

3. She married Robert Browning, a famous English poet
and moved to Italy. Most of her poems deal with
human emotions.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert BrowningBrownings in Venice

4. “For oh,” say the children, “we are weary

5. And we cannot run or leap;

6. If we cared for any meadows, it were merely

7. To drop down in them and sleep.

8. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping,

9. We fall upon our faces, trying to go;

10. And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping

11. The reddest flower would look as pale as snow.

12. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring

13. Through the coal – dark, underground;

14. Or, all day we drive the wheels or iron

15. In the factories, round and round.”

16. Sharada
Thank You One & All